大乘起信論裂網疏 2.47

2.47

"Persons of the two vehicles" generally refers to those of learning and those of no-more-learning. "Bodhisattvas of initial practice", among the shared ten stages, refers to those from the stage of the eight persons and the stage of seeing and above. Among the three classes of worthies and ten classes of sages, it refers to those from the abode of initial resolve and above. Because they have already severed discriminating self-delusion and realised the tathatā revealed by the emptiness of self, they can be enlightened to the distinct differences in essence and marks between having thought when emerging from contemplation and being without thought when entering contemplation. Abandoning the two defilements of views and thoughts is called abandoning coarse discrimination. Having only attained the untaintedness of the emptiness of self and not yet the untaintedness of the emptiness of dharmas, it is merely called approximate enlightenment.